What should Monday Nights look like?
We need your help. We’ve entered the phase where we will be transitioning Monday Night events away from a random garage on the west side of town to bars and restaurants serving Monday Night beers, all over the Atlanta area (and eventually Georgia). This will allow us to meet more people in different parts of Atlanta, and give us a venue to provide beer for sale (which we cannot do out of a garage for obvious reasons). However, we haven’t yet put too much thought into what a post-garage Monday Night event should look like.
What would you be most excited about? Here are a few thought starters, but we really want your fresh thinking. Leave a comment, if you dare.
- Meeting the owners (prediction: this will not be a winning suggestion)
- Drink specials on Monday Night beers
- Random schwag giveaways (we wouldn’t be able to give away stuff to everyone, though)
- Games or trivia
- Food options paired specifically for Monday Night beers
- Bringing in interesting guests such as authors, scientists, or pirate experts
Big news coming soon…
…and we’re going to break it via our newsletter. So if you want to be the first on your block to know, best sign up, foolz.
You may be thinking to yourself, “But I think I already am signed up. And I haven’t gotten a newsletter since November.” Yep, that’s entirely plausible. We send out newsletters about twice a year at this point. Only when we have significant news, not when Joel tries to spam everyone he knows with his new idea for a Monday Night Raspberry Vanilla Wine Cooler (which he has codenamed “Whisper” for some strange reason).
But seriously, if you’d like to be on our email list, we’ll be sending out something exciting (for us, at least) in the next couple weeks. If you don’t want to be on our email list, fine. It’s a free country.
*single tear*
Support for Monday Night from Sweden
Tova and Ida (from Sweden) sent us the following note:
We found IsItMondayNow.com and we LOVE it! Originally our favorite website was erdetfredag.dk (“Is it Friday” in Danish. And yes, we are trilingual). So we started promoting that web page at work, and now all 50 of us check it daily. So our next mission will be to promote IsItMondayNow.com. Thank you for a great site. And we might be coming to Atlanta to try the beer. Just let us know when and where, and we’ll be there.
/Ida & Tove
We’re not quite sure what international love and admiration looks like, but we’re pretty sure this is getting close it to it. Also we read on Wikipedia that Ida and Tove were the most awesome people in Sweden. So take that for what you will.
MNB interviewed on branding a brewery by The Business of Beer
John over at The Business of Beer sat down with us as part of his new The Startup Dialogues series. We talked about building a name, logo, and packaging for a new brewery. Check it out. Leave a comment. Heckle the locals.
MNB American Apparel shirts arriving soon! Only $10!
Yes folks, that’s right. We’ve got schwag. They will look similar to this, except they will be made of high quality American Apparel fabrics instead of computer screens.
We will be selling them at Monday Night events, so go to the ATM now and grab some cash. $10 gets you the first production MNB shirt. Joel is especially excited because this is the first time his likeness has been emblazoned on any fabric. (Joel is the silhouette of our logo)
Creative Loafing gets their act together
Yesterday we were featured on Creative Loafing’s website in an excellent article written by Jeff Holland, with special photographic guest, Matt Altmix. That’s right, we’re big time. I encourage you to read the article in full, as it is a great example of how journalism works. You will notice that the number of quotes attributed to a specific person is in direct relation to that person’s sexiness. I, of course, come in at the top of the list. Jeff also has a quote in there, as he is not a bad-looking individual.
And Joel has… let me double-check this… zero quotes. Looks like a certain someone hit every branch of the ugly tree after a certain sexier someone knocked him out of the tree with a well-placed rock.
Beer Connoisseur launches and Monday Night gets a piece of the pie
A new beer magazine, Beer Connoisseur, launched their online site last week (a print version will be following soon). Why is this important? Because we are officially blogging for them on how to start a brewery under the title, “From Our House to the Brewhouse.”
Sign up for a free account if you want to read our stuff. You can then navigate to the blogs section and find the blog with the sexiest-looking writer. They are also looking for feedback on the site in general, so be sure to drop them a line if you have anything!